Saturday, June 12, 2010

Saturday Doubleheader From ESPN And SPEED

A good Saturday of racing will feature a day-night doubleheader from ESPN and SPEED.

The TV day starts off with final Sprint Cup Series practice from Michigan International Speedway at 12:30PM ET on SPEED. Darrell Waltrip is back this weekend and he is up in the TV booth with Steve Byrnes and Larry McReynolds.

This is one of four summer weekends Waltrip will be working for SPEED. I am hearing his involvement may extend even further.

Krista Voda steps-in at 1:30PM to host The Setup pre-race show for the Camping World Truck Series. On this race, Voda will be switching to pit reporter role since Adam Alexander is a little busy hosting the TNT coverage on Sunday. Voda will be joined by Ray Dunlap on pit road. The regular SPEED TV trio of Rick Allen, Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip will call the 2PM race.

Next up is qualifying for the Nationwide Series racing at the Kentucky Speedway. This weekend, it will be Marty Reid in the TV booth with Rusty Wallace and Andy Petree alongside. Dale Jarrett has the weekend off. Qualifying airs at 4PM on ESPN.

The NASCAR Countdown pre-race show this weekend is going to be hosted by Allen Bestwick. Wallace and Brad Daugherty will be in the Infield Pit Studio. Tim Brewer will be in the Tech Garage. The pre-race begins on ESPN at 7:30PM.

It will be thirty minutes later when Wallace and company start the race coverage. Joining the team this week from pit road will be Dr. Jerry Punch, Jamie Little, Dave Burns and Vince Welch. Shannon Spake is reporting for NASCAR Now from MIS.

Other motorsports items to note on Saturday include the 8:30AM start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on SPEED. At 4:30PM, SPEED also has F-1 qualifying from the familiar Montreal street circuit. Le Mans coverage then continues from 6PM to 2AM Sunday morning.

We will be live blogging the CWTS and NNS races, please join us for that. In the meantime, happy to have your comments on any of the above topics. To add your opinion, just click on the comments button below. This is a family-friendly website, please keep that in mind when posting. Thanks for stopping by!

17 comments:

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There seems to be a problem. There's an 80 percent chance of thunderstorms for Kentucky on Saturday. What does this mean for Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, and Paul Menard should the Meijer 300 be held on Sunday (the day of the Heluva Good 400? Thanks!

Why don't the newtworks continue to push the waltrips on us more. how many times do i have to tell them, if it has a watrip in the booth i wont watch it. last night was reruns of axmen instead, now i am going fishing at the local pier. i would have much rather watched nascar but they dont get the message. GET RID OF THE WALTRIPS

Am I the only person ...who thinks that the announcers onthe truck series..NEVER SHUT THE **** UP ? no respect at all for the viewers .. They cant even shut up on therestarts !!! What a shame for a great sport to have morons idiotsat the controls. I wonder how many viewers actuallywatch this disaster unfold weekly ?

Nice to hear MR back in the booth! We're missing F1 qualifying on Speed. I think it would be very funny if the double duty drivers couldn't race in the NW race if it rains, but Nascar would never allow that to happen and they would make sure that they get both races in for those drivers even if they have to postpone to Monday.